Example sentences of "he [conj] [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She put her arms round him where he stood on the threshold of her room . |
| 2 | He was one of those ‘ look after number one ’ types , not averse to trampling on other people if it got him where he wanted to be . |
| 3 | After the war a man called Alec Howson in Barnard Castle ran the trips and it was with him that we went to Loch Lomond . |
| 4 | he was right at the height of his Anthony Newley hang-up , so one problem was constantly reminding him that he sounded like Anthony Newley and trying to ‘ de-Newleyfy ’ him if you could . |
| 5 | Only the mouth told him that he looked on the face of his friend . |
| 6 | She told him that he had to be successful and then she made it impossible for him . |
| 7 | I was that busy trying to convince him that he had to er go to doctors cos I says what did they actually do ? |
| 8 | As he approaches the city on the freeway the same old restless excitement stirs in him that he felt on that first apocalyptic evening all those years ago . |
| 9 | She was so aware of him that he seemed to be touching her from a long way off . |
| 10 | It was recorded of him that he sang with the monks in the divine offices ; when taunted by the king for his clerkly tastes , he responded that an illiterate king was a crowned ass ( a cliché much favoured in twelfth-century Angevin circles , for it sprang from a sense of family superiority — the counts of Anjou were , by any standards , learned men ) . |
| 11 | It is characteristic of him that he transmitted to us a document which gave the number of the soldiers in the Roman army about 225 B.C. and added the number of the men of military age but not under arms : the document distinguished between Roman citizens and allies , and gave specific figures for the main groups of allies ( 2.23–4 ) . |
| 12 | He also contrived to marry several times , on one occasion to a shrewish wench who so exasperated him that he leapt upon her and gave her such a beating that she held her peace thereafter . |
| 13 | He laughed back when I told him that I came from a poor barrio in Britain and that we were no longer referred to as people either . |
| 14 | However , I would also like to remind him that I wrote in response to a report which I assumed to be factual . |
| 15 | He also taught us music and it was through him that I learned of its expressive nature . |
| 16 | Later that evening she had told him that she came from Newcastle , that her widowed father had remarried and that she and her stepmother could n't get on . |
| 17 | Her sturdy common sense , the downright attitude to life which never ceased to surprise him , the constant loving references to a papa and a mama who sounded remarkably practical themselves , even if they had spoiled their beautiful daughter , informed him that she came from a background very unlike any that Dr Neil had ever encountered . |
| 18 | Sometime she felt so fond of him that she inclined to a belief in reincarnation , feeling that they must once have been twins : she understood him far too well for her peace of mind , and she knew why her brothers detested him ; apart from the fact that they were racists , they were baffled by his charm and his after-shave . |
| 19 | Dr Neil was not in any way surprised at McAllister 's reaction to his lovemaking ; he expected such modesty from a well brought up young girl , and her arms around his neck , her timid responses , fluttering though they were , told him that she felt for him what he felt for her , and further inflamed his own passion , while warning him to go gently . |
| 20 | ‘ They were n't like you when I was at school , ’ had been his amused reaction when she had told him that she taught in the village . |
| 21 | She had not quite the disdain of him that she put into what she said ; and perhaps he knew it as well as she did . |
| 22 | At first she told him that she wanted to be near her cousin Freddy , in the Engineers . |
| 23 | He chucked this bit of glass , it cut him so we ran over here . |
| 24 | For Michael Codron , it marked the start of an outstanding production career — which had seemed to bode so ill for him during the run of The Wit To Woo , a play that had no happier associations for him than it had for Ken . |
| 25 | He has a dynamic personality and musical discrimination , and without exception the orchestra played much better for him than it did for the ballet conductor , Viktor Fedotov . |
| 26 | Feeling closer to him than she had at any time since her mother 's death , Rory hid her face against his shoulder . |
| 27 | She knew only marginally more about him than she did about Bella . |
| 28 | Him and her sat on the fence , the they 're slobbering away ! |
| 29 | General Lu Han had 180000 troops with him and they lived off the country in the traditional Chinese manner , looting and exporting industrial plant to China . |
| 30 | She looked up at him and they kissed on the lips , this time not frivolously , but full of heat and passion . |